The Civil Guard's Weapons and Explosives Intervention turns 35
1,800 civil guards ensure compliance with the regulations on weapons and explosives in our country since 1986
Since the creation of this specialty, the Civil Guard has managed more than one and a half million weapons licenses and 2,800,000 membership guides
The Civil Guard Weapons and Explosives Intervention celebrates the 35th anniversary of its creation. Currently, this specialty has 1,800 civil guards who are in charge of ensuring compliance with the regulations on weapons and explosives throughout the national territory.
The importance of controlling weapons, explosives, cartridges and pyrotechnics makes a specific inspection work necessary to prevent such matters from leaving the safe circuits, guaranteeing citizen security at all times.
In this context, on July 19, 1986, the Civil Guard's Weapons and Explosives Intervention specialty was created. This service has been constantly evolving over the years, adapting to social and legislative changes. Proof of this has been the recent creation of the National Registry of Arms in order to know at all times the vicissitudes of a weapon from its origin. The National Arms Focal Point was also created, within the United Nations action program of 2001, in order to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit trade in small arms.
Areas of activity
Weapons and Explosives Interventions focus their activity on the control and inspection of all activities related to weapons, explosives, cartridges and fireworks, regulating from their manufacture, possession and use, imports, transfers, community transits, to their destruction.
This work is carried out in contexts so different, ranging from the verification of security measures in a possible firing range on the occasion of popular celebrations, to the inspection of the traceability of explosives used in a mine, as well as the management of the SCEPYL program. that allows greater control of the movements of explosives for civilian use within the territory of the EU.
Arms Interventions in figures
The specialty is made up of more than 1,800 men and women, deployed throughout the national territory in 332 Weapons and Explosives Interventions, through which the control of more than 1,500,000 weapons licenses, 2,800. 000 membership guides (DNI of the weapon), 34,000 security guard licenses, 1,500 establishments (armories, weapons or explosives factories, etc.) or more than 13,000 actions related to infractions of the different regulations.
All of the above entails the annual processing of nearly 300,000 procedures related to applications for weapons licenses or the issuance of more than 200,000 membership guides, conducting more than 20,000 inspections of establishments related to the manufacture, storage, trade and use of these matters and as well as the intervention of more than 5,000 prohibited weapons.
The destruction of weapons in the last eight years has amounted to close to half a million, thereby complying, on the one hand, with current regulations and, on the other, with the United Nations Program in order to promote actions to eliminate firearms. of illicit origin.
Future perspectives
The Weapons and Explosives Interventions are outlined as modern and digitized offices to facilitate the citizen any procedure that must be carried out, thereby avoiding unnecessary inconvenience and travel.
In addition, they stand out for the growing development of relations at the international level where Spanish regulations and the control that the Civil Guard over regulated matters have been references to take into account in various countries.
For any questions or clarification in relation to the content of this note, you should contact the Peripheral Communication Office of the Headquarters of Arms, Explosives and Security, telephone 91.514.6900 ext. 6544357.
